Legal Opinion
Chelmsford Trailer Park, Inc. v. Town of Chelmsford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 25, 1984PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLynch, J.
The plaintiff, the owner of a mobile home park, challenges the validity of St. 1983, c. 449 (the act), an act enabling the town of Chelmsford to adopt a by-law to control rents and evictions in mobile home parks, and the validity of the by-law adopted by the town pursuant to the act.
The owner’s complaint sought a declaratory judgment that the act and the by-law were invalid and unconstitutional, as well as preliminary and permanent injunctions against the implementation of the by-law by the town. The Attorney General intervened as a party defendant pursuant to G. L. c. 231 A, § 8. On April 9,…
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